Invariant Theory and Scaling Algorithms for Maximum Likelihood Estimation

DOI10.1137/20M1328932MaRDI QIDQ5001672

Anna Leah Seigal, Kathlén Kohn, Carlos Améndola, Philipp Reichenbach

Publication date: 23 July 2021

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13662

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihood estimationgroup actionsgraphical modelsGaussian modelsnull conescaling algorithms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Geometric invariant theory (14L24) Real algebraic sets (14P05) Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45) Probabilistic graphical models (62H22) Algebraic statistics (62R01)

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